Faculty Union Names Miller To Presidency

Perry G.E. Miller, professor of American Literature, has been elected president of the Cambridge Union of University Teachers for the year 1947-48, it was announced last night.

The union, which is local 431 of the American Federation of Teachers, A.F. of L., also elected four other officers and a 10-man executive board at a recent meeting.

Other officials named include: Jerome S. Bruner, lecturer on Social Psychology, vice-president; Albert S. Coolidge '15, lecturer on Chemistry, treasurer; Bernard Barber '39, teaching fellow in Social Relations, recording secretary; and Jacob C. Levenson, teaching fellow in History, corresponding secretary.

Matthiessen Steps Down

Francis O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature, was the union's outgoing president.

Local 431 was established in 1935 as a protest against the Teachers Oath Bill which proposed to institute a rigid check of all educator's allegience to the Constitution. Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, was the leading figure in the early organization of the Teachers Union here.

During the Walsh-Sweezy affair two years later Local 431 again defended the thesis of academic freedom that had called it into existence. Although not concerned with any immediate salary problems, the Teachers Union went on record this term favoring teachers' rights to strike.